gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) (04/25/91)
I've been living in a 1024K XT world for the last 4 years but recently
upgraded to a:
386SX, 2M RAM, 80M (fast) HD, Oak Tech 600x800x16 VGA card,
mouse on COM2, internal modem on COM3, COM1 there, but nothing
attached.
The BIOS is Pheonix 1.10 Plus I believe and the make of the system is
Jemini (clone model). The BIOS setup is accomplished by hitting CTRL-ALT-ESC
which brings up a nice full-screen config menu.
Now, I installed Windows 3.0 on this beast with the video driver supplied
by Oak (the VGA card manufacturer). I've been having two problems:
(a) I can't get the Terminal accessory to work correctly. Whenever I
go into it Windows comes up with "COM3 is currently reserved for a DOS
application, reassign it for Windows?" or somesuch, to which I answer
Yes and it then reports "COM2 is in use, try COM1?" (COM2 has my mouse
on it) which I reply Yes, and then I get let into Terminal mode, and
my modem doesn't respond. My system is a vanilla installation, no
changes have been made to the .INI files, if that helps.
(b) I can't seem to run non-Windows applications. Things like 4DOS, PKUNZIP,
or even Windows compatible archive managers which call things like
PKUNZIP. I can run the "DOS Shell" icon which comes up as a full
screen. Any ideas what's going on here?
Any and all help would be appreciated,
PG
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